A wealth of overlooked yet frightening literature concerning
the Nazi crusade against smoking provides a clear parallel
to contemporary developments and an alarming warning
that state restriction of personal habits is the pre-cursor
to dictatorship.

Beginning in the early 1930's, as part of the Nazi
agenda for racial purity, Hitler spearheaded a national
campaign to ban smoking in all public buildings, and
denounced the practice as a betrayal of the fascist
drive for bodily purity.

"Brother national socialist, do you know that
our Führer is against smoking and think that every
German is responsible to the whole people for all his
deeds and emissions, and does not have the right to
damage his body with drugs?" stated one magazine.

As I wrote
earlier this year, "The regulation of the personal
habit of smoking, including new legislative moves in
San Francisco to ban cigarettes in private homes, and
its enforcement by an eager cadre of state snoops and
snitches, represents nothing more than a move on behalf
of big brother towards the complete subjugation and
shackling of the individual."

Read these shocking parallels and compare them to the
endless lecturing we are forced to endure today about
our personal lifestyle choices by the state and their
propaganda arm, the mass media.

Nazi anti-smoking propaganda
poster.

- The Nazis banned tobacco advertising and financed
huge public relations campaigns to propagandize people
into giving up smoking.

- The Nazis banned smoking in government offices, civic
transport, university campuses, rest homes, post offices,
many restaurants and bars, hospital grounds and workplaces,
and Hitler gave awards to associates who quit the habit.

- Nazi lobbyists lectured terrified children in schools
on the horrors of racial impurity as a result of smoking.

- The term "passive smoking" (Passivrauchen)
was coined by the Nazi Anti-Tobacco League. Its author,
Fritz Lickint, offered no supporting evidence to claim
that smokers poisoned everyone around them, while also
stating that drinking coffee caused cancer.

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- Hitler was an ardent vegetarian and did not smoke
or drink after the age of 30, even accrediting the rise
of fascism to his success in kicking the habit. He forbade
anyone from smoking in a room he might enter. Fellow
fascist leaders Mussolini, Napoleon and Franco also
detested smoking.

- The Nazi anti-smoking crusade was unleashed with
the help of manufactured junk science on behalf of the
medical and health establishment, one such example being
that smoking caused "spontaneous abortions"
in pregnant women.

- Despite the Nazi propaganda crusade against smoking,
tobacco sales increased in Germany, leading some history
professors to hypothesize that smoking was an act of
cultural resistance against fascism, until the late
1930's after smoking was banned in most public buildings
and tobacco sales rapidly declined.

Another Nazi anti-smoking
propaganda poster depicts a jackboot kicking a cigarette,
a cigar and a pipe.

What conclusions can we draw from these parallels?
Either the Nazis were benign really cared about everyone's
health or they used the specter of anti-smoking to exert
massive control over people's lives and scale back basic
freedoms, getting a foot in the door for the political
dictatorship that was to follow.

It's all about control, it's all about letting you
know who the bosses are. If the government can regulate
personal habits and behavior, what's next? If the state
is so concerned about our good health as they would
have you believe, why not use the latest scientific
advancements to remove that nasty aggressive gene that
causes so much unhappiness? Well, you're causing those
around you distress and harming their health so why
not? Are your political opinions a mental illness? Are
they harming society? Perhaps we should ban certain
types of "free" speech that is offensive to
others.

You see where this is all heading - how long before
our wall mounted personal x-ray body scanners are accompanied
by special smoke detectors that inform on you to the
local Stasi if you dare to light up?

We live in a paranoid world overpopulated by ninnying
jellyfish who dare not dip their toe in the water in
case there's a law against it, it might upset someone,
or it might be bad for their health.

Many people will read this article having lost loved
ones as a result of smoking. Please don't have a knee
jerk emotional reaction, try to understand that the
point I'm making - smoking is unhealthy but it is healthier
than fascism and government regulation of personal habits
leads to dictatorship.

The fact that the very language and policies that we
are now bombarded with as a justification for state
regulation of our personal lifestyle choices are directly
lifted from Nazi policies for racial hygiene from the
1930's should alarm us all and act as a wake up call
to the true agenda behind today's anti-smoking purge.